Jamal

This fits with what I was saying recently about meritocracy. Whatever its… merits (and I question those), the idea functions as ideology to obscure ex...

I think beyond Nietzsche by bypassing him. That book looks interesting. Still haven’t got around to Graeber.

Some films I’ve enjoyed a lot in more recent years: Under the Skin The Green Knight The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Cabin in the Woods Midsommar Us, ...

Hey GMBA, good to see you ag—wait a minute, what’s this? I’m offended!

Incidentally, I got the phrase "insufferable enthusiasm" from Nietzsche, writing about progress. Elsewhere he wrote this: I quite like the idea of hum...

Wouldn't he just say that in actuality, the Enlightenment was only realized in nation-states, and especially in the US, where he and his friends stand...

Nicely put. Seen in this light, the claim that the bad bits are just relics is especially preposterous.

This is an option I hadn't considered. Thanks :up:

I feel the same. I call it "dialectical". :grin: But despite the melancholy behind the OP, I don't share your pessimism. I don't think war is eternal ...

Yep. I should point out that it's not just liberals who do this. It's obviously at work in Marx and in the revolutionaries who were inspired by him. M...

The average weight of a human skeleton is 9 kg, so I won't be getting down to 4 kg any time in the next few decades. Unless I'm cremated. The average ...

Hey, don't belittle my recent success. 2023: 93 kg.

I woke up to the silence of snowfall. I could hear the silence because it’s women’s day, a national holiday, so there’s very little traffic on the str...

My story so far: 1972: 4 kg 2016: 117 kg 2018: 87 kg 2021: 107kg 2023: 93 kg Crucial dates here are my birth and my wedding in 2018. Hoping to get dow...

If knowing how to x is reworded as having the ability to x, objections to how to knowledge such as in @"Hanover"’s final ruling might disappear. But w...

I accept the ruling even though every one of its constituent statements is false, except for the bit that begins with “That is my ruling,” which I agr...

I agree. It seems equally difficult to see it as propositional knowledge. But this is where I have trouble, because to give a proposition as a candida...

I think it was how-to knowledge.

I agree you don’t need to think it in words to be certain of it. But (1) for thought or knowledge to be linguistic or entwined with language doesn’t e...

Yes, I can still feel that magnetic gravitation from here.

It's unfortunate that you promised to yourself never to go back there. I make mine with apple, yellow pepper, olives, pomegranate arils, feta cheese, ...

Aye but mentally searching for words is linguistic mentation. You're already in language at that point. The conversion, if there is one, I think of as...

On TPF, your stock is rising, and that's all that matters.

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But I’ve been reading that IEP article and can’t see the justification for “To be is to be alive; all other being is borrowed being.” I’m not saying i...

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On the contrary, correct spelling is not just knowledge, but a moral and aesthetic imperative.

You missed the porpoise and ND misspelled "altar". This is the Shoutbox: shape up!

Once I accumulate enough knowledge to realize adequate profits on my learning investment, I will be starting literally thousands of discussions.

Ha, yeah I thought that would please you. :grin: But I really must stop trying to please people so much.

I tend in that direction too, but I’m thinking it’s a dialectical thing and that philosophy is not thereby denigrated, unless it ignores the fact (lik...

A critical theorist might identify in this comment the structure of capitalism. It reveals that our idea of knowledge is modelled on the endless drive...

It’s on my list of things to look into now. :up:

I have been inspired to do so, but, like you, not to the point of actually doing anything about it. I have an idea for a thread about history, about w...

I lost interest years ago, but regained it recently for reasons I’ve been trying to unearth. I think it was something to do with reading the novel Cra...

I’ll take that as an indirect way of conceding defeat. Thank you.

That is interesting.

But note that distinguishing sentient, conscious, or rational beings from those which are not is certainly not considered eccentric by everyone at TPF...

I don’t think I’m talking about intuition. For me, the human form of life is primary, not the mental happenings of a subject of experience considered ...

Yep. I’ve never not known it.

Some basic beliefs don’t require justification. Sometimes the truth asserts itself by force. Certainty is a network of beliefs that fit together. This...

Ah, that is now the State Duma, just across the road from the Kremlin.

So I’m guessing the one I’m close to was part of the upgrade. The architectural style is 70s.

That’s just your intolerant anti-religious bias speaking.

Cool. The building I’m close to was a Gosplan computing centre but I don’t know if it was the main one.

It has the ring of truth to it though doesn’t it? It’s not like his other stories. How does “the ring of truth” fit in your epistemology?

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Yeah, I was referring to the computerisation.

Nice. This would’ve been the 60s and 70s right?

Got you :up: